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  • Arduino For Beginners

    How to get the most of out of your Arduino, including Arduino basics, Arduino tips and tricks, Arduino projects and more!

    by Matthew Oates ...
    ARDUINO FOR BEGINNERSThe Arduino is a small computer, originally created in Italy.It is small, functional, and most importantly affordable. It can be used for a wide range of projects, and is great fun for anyone to learn and use.This guide covers the basics of the Arduino, including the different models, what's included, how to use the Arduino, and some different projects to try.As your skills ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Raspberry Pi For Beginners

    How to get the most out of your raspberry pi, including raspberry pi basics, tips and tricks, raspberry pi projects, and more!

    by Matthew Oates ...
    RASPBERRY PI FOR BEGINNERSThe Raspberry Pi is a small computer that is affordable, fun, practical, and rapidly growing in popularity. It has a huge range of functions, and the uses of this amazing little computer are only limited by the users imagination, time, and effort.This book explains how the Raspberry Pi works, and the different uses of this computer.No matter what version of Pi you ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • His Imperial Majesty

    A Natural History of the Purple Emperor

    by Matthew Oates ...
    A witty and informative account that busts the myths about Britain's most captivating butterfly species.When summer is at its zenith and the sallow foliage develops a bluish tinge, a giant butterfly – beautiful, bold and brazen – flies powerfully over the tree canopy. Females of this species, wary yet determined, haunt the sallow thickets, depositing their eggs, while the males establish treetop ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • In Pursuit of Butterflies

    A Fifty-year Affair

    by Matthew Oates ...
    The butterflies of Britain, in the words of one of their greatest champions.Matthew Oates has led a butterflying life. Naturalist, conservationist and passionate lover of poetry, he has devoted himself to these exalted creatures: to their observation, to singing their praises, and to ensuring their survival. Based on fifty years of detailed diaries, In Pursuit of Butterflies is the chronicle of ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

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  • The Map That Changed the World

    William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

    by Simon Winchester ...
    From the author of the bestselling The Professor and the Madman comes the fascinating biography of science detailing the story of William Smith, the orphaned son of an English country blacksmith, who became obsessed with creating the world's first geological map and ultimately became the father of modern geology.In 1793 William Smith, a canal digger, made a startling scientific discovery that was ... Read more

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  • Britain BC

    Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Text Only)

    by Francis Pryor ...
    An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds.British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dinosaur Hunters

    A True Story of Scientific Rivalry and the Discovery of the Prehistoric World (Text Only Edition)

    by Deborah Cadbury ...
    The story of two nineteenth-century scientists who revealed one of the most significant and exciting events in the natural history of this planet: the existence of dinosaurs.In ‘The Dinosaur Hunters’ Deborah Cadbury brilliantly recreates the remarkable story of the bitter rivalry between two men: Gideon Mantell uncovered giant bones in a Sussex quarry, became obsessed with the lost world of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of Trees

    A Miscellany

    by Max Adams ...
    A passionate and informative celebration of trees and of man's ingenuity in exploiting their resources: the perfect gift for anyone who cares about the natural world.Trees are marvels of nature, still-standing giants of extraordinary longevity. In a beautifully written sequence of essays, anecdotes and profiles of Britain's best-loved species (from yew to scots pine), Max Adams explores both the ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Woodlands

    by Oliver Rackham ...
    ‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities …’Written by one of Britain’s best-known naturalists, Woodlands offers a fascinating new insight into the trees of the British landscape that have filled us with awe and inspiration throughout the centuries.Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in ... Read more

    $6.49 USD

  • A Natural History of the Hedgerow

    and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls

    by John Wright ...
    It is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for mushrooms or collecting wayside nettles for soup, most of us are unaware of quite how profoundly hedgerows have shaped the history of our ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Lichens

    by Oliver Gilbert ...
    Series Book 86 - Collins New Naturalist Library
    Lichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a vast range of habitats, including seemingly impossible places such as bare icy mountain tops and sun-scorched coastal rocks. This book discusses all aspects of British lichens, revealing the secrets of their success. This edition is exclusive to newnaturalists.comLichens are fascinating and beautiful organisms able to colonise a ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Landskipping

    Painters, Ploughmen and Places

    by Anna Pavord ...
    Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind ... Read more

    $20.09 USD